Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina Merci is a scholarship student at a private school in Florida which makes the ordinary challenges facing sixth graders more potent. Jealous girlfriends, changing boy-girl relationships, seemingly unjust social situations, and increasing responsibilities at home are just a few of the problems Merci encounters as she begins a …
Moon can hunt, fish, trap, and make his own coon-skin cap, but when his Pap dies he is forced to find his place in the world. Life is nothing like his forest home. At ten, Moon finds himself at odds with the law, the state, and even himself. When I picked up Alabama Moon I …
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins Gregor is a teen living in New York who tumbles into an underground adventure by way of their apartment laundry room. Gregor and his two-year-old sister find themselves caught up in Underland prophesies. Their father's unexpected disappearance in the Overland may be the key to fulfilling destiny and getting …
Misty of Chincoteague, by Marguerite Henry Paul and Maureen Beebee are orphaned and go to live with their grandparents in Virginia. When they become enraptured by a wild Chincoteague pony on Assateague Island, they determine to get her for their own. But capturing and taming the wild mare is more difficult than the Beebee children …
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Sara Crewe grew up in India, but at the onset of World War I, her father procured her a place at a very prestigious boarding school in England. Every comfort was provided for her and she was a favorite in the school - until news of her father's …
